> First, traditional message brokers (ie queues, topics, persistence, etc) introduce a potential bottleneck for all communication, and on top of that they are _

> First, traditional message brokers (ie queues, topics, persistence, etc) introduce a potential bottleneck for all communication, and on top of that they are _slow_ compared to just using the network (ie HTTP, with no middleman). How is multiplexing supposed to work with plain HTTP without middleman? One of the main uses for message queues is efficient fan-out (m + n connections instead of m x n).